Listen to new music records from 2014, as picked by the New Sounds Staff: Fall Intern Emma Munger, Temporary Assistant Producer Isabel Kim, and the New Sounds All-Purpose Assistant Caryn Havlik. The music ranges from guitar-centric country-jazzy to Jewish Afrobeat party horns, from forward-thinking electronic music by Aphex Twin to distorted hammered dulcimers used for black metal, electronically enhanced song cycles to Kronos Quartet. There's also Norwegian guitar music, a French composer/klezmer clarinetist, Moroccan Gnawa grooves, and Argentinian folktronica. Plainly, the supplemental staff had only minor overlap with their overlord, Executive Producer and Host, John Schaefer. The lists are all HERE, and for this New Sounds, we'll hear highlights from their three end-of-year selections. Thanks very much to both Isabel Kim and Emma Munger for their excellent work in 2014.
PROGRAM #3680 Year in Review 2014: Staff Picks (First aired on 1/6/2015)
ARTIST(S) | RECORDING | CUT(S) | SOURCE |
The Bad Plus | The Rite of Spring | Introduction (first part adoration of the earth) [5:02] | Sony Masterworks 88843 02405 2 |
Zion80 | Adramelech (Zion80 plays John Zorn's Book of Angels) | John Zorn: Sheviel [5:49] | Tzadik 8319 |
Jacob Cooper, feat. Mellissa Hughes, soprano | Silver Threads | IV Wefted Histories [6:56] | Nonesuch 540989 |
Chancha via Circuito | Amansara | Coplita ft Miriam Garcia [3:49] | Wonderwheel WONDERCD-23 |
Florent Ghys | Television | Blazer et/ou Cravate [1:56] | Cantaloupe 21104 |
Stein Urheim | Stein Urheim | After the Festival, excerpt [5:30] | Hubro Records HUBROCD2539/HUBROLP3539 |
Nels Cline & Julian Lage | Room | Abstract 12 [1:48] | Mack Avenue MAC1091 |
Khaira Arby | Timbuktu Tarab [2010] | Goumou [5:21] | Clermont CLE 005 |
Aphex Twin | Syro | aisatsana [102] [5:22] | Warp - #WARPCD 247 |
Anna Clyne | The Violin | October Rose [3:45] | Vision Into Art Records |